Frequently Asked Questions About Slickr Flickr

This section contains questions about the capabilities and features of Slickr Flickr. Some of the answers will include an example of how to use a particular feature

Please check out the questions and answers on the pages below or use the search box in the sidebar.

If your question is not answered below or on the issues or suggestions pages below then please use the comment on the main help page and I will respond

Please note that due to the recent popularity of Slickr Flickr I can no longer give individual help with your site for free. However if you would like personal support with Slickr Flickr then please upgrade to Slickr Flickr Pro which offers both support and bonus features for a minimal monthly free

Rene asked I would like to know how to remove the link to the picture. I don’t want users to be able to click on the picture? Russell answered To stop a click activating the lightbox use lightbox=”none” slickr-flickr search=”sets” id=”[email protected]″ set=”72157662815501240″ size=”m640″ responsive=”on” random=”1″ orientation=”landscape” restrict=”orientation” items=”15″ type=”gallery” thumbnail_size=”small” lightbox=”none”

Martin asked I am pretty new to this great plugin. One question – regarding the flexibility: I want to fetch some of the photos of my favorites – see https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/favorites note- these photos are not taken by me – no. they are from others! I want to fetch eg – 4 to 5 fotos of […]

Laura asked: I would like to embed a carousel slideshow on the top of some of my pages from a group Flickr account. For example, I am creating a page for a neighborhood in Boulder, Colorado. I would like to have a carousel (i.e. photos around 400×400) on the top of the page from the […]

Alison asked: I’m trying to figure out if your plug-in supports albums / sets and is mobile responsive. Right now, I have a lot of slideshows of particular albums embedded using Flicker’s embed code. But that relies on flash, which isn’t supported on mobile. So I’m looking for an alternative … would even pay for […]

Question I’d like the “Photography” page on my website to display a gallery of thumbnails—not for individual pictures, but where each thumbnail represents a specific album within my Flickr account. Clicking on that thumbnail would then display a slideshow of that specific album. Answer: Here is a temporary solution for this. I am working on […]

Combining Tagged Photos You can combine photos with different tags. – This is available in the free and pro versions of the plugin. See Selecting Flickr Photos with multiple tags Combining Galleries You can combine photos from different galleries – This is a premium feature which you can see in operation here. Combining Photoset Photos […]

Chris asked: I want to be able to display 4 images in the gallery as thumbnails then click an image get the lightbox but of all 340 photos in my flickr tag? Is that possible? Russell replied: All the thumbnails need to be present for the likebox to operate,however you could use CSS to hide […]

You might get the “This Image Or Video Is Currently Unavailable” message appear as a popup when you click through on a thumbnail on a Slickr Flickr gallery. This is because the photo is not available on Flickr at the size requested. To check what sizes are available for a photo, find the photo on […]

Braden Hello, I am working with your plug in on my site. I have not yet purchases your pro version, but will if what I need is possible and the support is there. Im not a programmer. I would like to create one page with a vertical stream of the last 10-20 medium or large […]

Fran: Does the pro version allow me to set the order of my images from the plugin area? I can set at flickr, but it does not present them to me that way on my site. Please advise. Russell: Unless you tell it otherwise Slickr Flickr displays photos in the exact same order as it […]

A number of people have asked about finding the Slickr Flickr admin page, once they’ve installed the plugin. Here is a quick video showing you how to do that. The Slickr Flickr Pro Admin panel is located in the Settings section of the WordPress dashboard.

Question I’d love to see the option to use sets rather than tags. That would make this plugin perfect. Any chance this is going to happen or should I start to get hacking on this myself? Answer Yes you can but with some restrictions in the current release. Slickr Flickr 1.14. Photosets are supported since […]

Question Deltina: I am trying to get the plugin to work within a Thesis media box. I really like the plugin, but would rather not have to write a new style just to accomodate it. It works fine in pages, just not in the media box, since that is looking for code. Is there an […]

Question Stuart: I have more than 50 photos that match the tag set. How can I implement a paging system? Answer Russell: Right now Slickr Flickr just fetches the first page of 50 photos – which are the most recent photos. I plan in the next release to allow you to specify a page number […]

Is it possible to display descriptions under the large image when using galleria? thanks! Answer Yes, just specify the attribute as follows: descriptions=”on” e.g [code] [ slickr-flickr tag="dogs" type="galleria" descriptions="on"] [/code] It looks like this:

How to remove list icons from the gallery which are associated with an existing stylesheet? I have tried editing ‘jquery.gallery.css’ as I saw in a previous post by someone with the same issue, but that css file has gone from the latest release! Issue can be see here: http://www.uniquetravelguide.com/2010/07/ayutthaya/ Love the plugin btw, simple and […]

Question I’m having difficulty finding a simple way to align slideshows to the left or right of a page. I feel like it defeats the purpose of using the plugin if I have to wrap it in a ‘div’ with lots of customized CSS styling. Are there any shortcuts I’m missing? Answer Right now you […]